Anyone know how bad this is for us (besides soaring gas prices)?

Trump wants to sell half of emergency US oil reserve

Transparency... lol. That has to be a joke.

I'm kind of a fan of the multiple-intelligences hypothesis, but in a different, more granular, sense than I think it's typically understood. Like being skeptical and self-policing is a mark of intelligence, but not a necessary condition by any means, just an ill-defined factor with a positive correlation. Up to, say, 50% of intelligence is perhaps attentional bandwidth and the ability to focus. Maybe those are two different things, maybe not. Another part, semi-realated, would be the ability to hold\manipulate a few more items in working memory. Hard, and maybe impossible, to individuate such "components." Another might be the ability to identity the relevant causal factor when something goes wrong. Another may be that affective state has limited influence on information processing (I.e, being cool under pressure).

Often the ability to become educated to a high level is largely a function of interests\motivation. For high-end intelligence, like a resech professor, a significant factor is seeing how complex ideas can be related in novel ways, somewhat akin to humor. (This novel -ish hypothesis, of course, being an example of intelligence at work.)

"Hiring based on qualifications instead of to pay back favors."

eh, not really that newsworthy imo. We've done this before.

Trump's first choice to replace Comey, calling the newest CBO report fake news:

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/statu...41526976090112

Blue checkmark after blue checkmark popping in to call him all kinds of names. 100% (minus one) opposition to his ridiculous tweet. Even people saying stuff like "I'm a Republican and your constituent and I'm tired of you defending Trump's stupid policies." Good! **** this guy. He's a menace. (Though if every GOP were like him, Trump's approval rating would dive down to about 13%.)

This seems like a really bad idea.

You'll get a ton of people that pay $2 just to read one particular article. As long as you make cancelling a big enough hassle, you'll get people who aren't really avid news readers paying $2/month for years because they wanted to read that one article about that thing they were interested in. If you run this out over a few years, I think you eventually end up with a massive amount of subscribers that pretty much never even read the paper.

Charge an amount that people will pay on a whim to read a single article, they will more than quintuple their user base easily. I have no interest whatsoever in subscribing to Rolling Stone Magazine, but there have been a few times where I wanted to read a specific article. I read them for free online, but if that first article had been behind $1.79/month paywall, I would have been a Rolling Stone subscriber for the past 10 years. If it was $10 to read that article, I wouldn't have paid, because like I said, I have no interest whatsoever in subscribing to Rolling Stone Magazine.

I agree with the above. Newspapers can't be charging that much for content. They should be mining data and showing ads, but charging $10 dollars on top of that is insane

From what I know he wasn't the first choice. Trump has been turned down by more people than being reported for this position. Big league!

Also good. Almost every time someone turns down his stupid requests, the anti-Trump movement gains.

Patriotism is hands down the most poisonous emotion and it goes a long way to explaining much of what is wrong in America.

Even over religion?

Both are awful but in the US specifically I'd say patriotism has done more harm.

French president Macron commenting on his lol handshake with Trump

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40077241

TRUMP has logged on to Twitter.





https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...07327130025984
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...07754231820291
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...07940744126464

The most important predictor of having someone go to college is their parents educational level, thereafter is iq. The parents are a substantial source of values and direction which translates into motivation and interest. However, in the US its not free to go to college so potentially money becomes a factor.

On the humor thing, there are research indicating that the ability to create humor is a mediator for intelligence, particularly interresting for the mating game. Males try to be funny and women get an insight into their brain functioning as a fitness indicator. Nature likes honest signals so it likes alot more that you can show intelligence by creating humor right on the spot than you having a degree (which can be faked).

I honestly believe that Scott Adams is mentally ill.

How is that different from being a trump supporter?

Not enough lulz for Donald Pussy Trump being exposed by Macron.

there are some youtube vids that show all these state leaders struggeling akwardly when engaging one another strategically. for example the one that goes through a door first is the submissive part, so they struggle to be the one that doesnt go in first. also they go out of their way to approach each other in the correct angle because there are a number of tricks you can avoid or capitalize on to become the dominant part when doing the handshake thing. cringe

So the leaks are made up by the media, but also we need to investigate the leaks that are just made up by the media.

I think he's just extremely Divorced

Lindsay Graham on CNN was quite interesting and will probably be not much noted. First, he seemed real interested in Trump's finances ("where'd he get funding in 2008/09 when no one else could"), said he didn't believe that report of Kushner mtg was from an intercept of ambassador (ambassador not the stupid), and the main thing he wanted to focus on was the article saying that Comey went public on Hillary in the summer to prevent leak of a fake Russian document saying Lynch/DOJ would cover for Hillary in the investigation. Graham said Comey never told Congress (even in closed session) he thought the intercept was fake. Graham brought up the issue 3 times and said Comey was definitely out of line if he thought it was fake and should have informed the intel committee. He didn't seem like a hack and he definitely (read between the lines) thinks Trump is a lying POS, but he seems to have his own unique take.

I recently bought a $99 wapo digital subscription, didn't consider the cost too much just wanted to support the institution that is saving our republic